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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

New York rates for HCPCS 92973

A device passed through a catheter breaks up and draws out a blood clot blocking a heart artery, restoring flow through the vessel. It is done during a catheter procedure on the heart arteries, usually alongside opening the vessel with a balloon or a stent, and is billed in addition to that work. Nothing is cut open in the chest.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery cost?

$1,031

Typical total for the visit. In New York, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,031 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $200 to the doctor who performs it, and $832 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$200$174 to $234
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$832$355 to $3,162

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $832 · 10th to 90th $166 to $7,244Professionalmedian $200 · 10th to 90th $148 to $339
$100$500$2K$10K$50Kfacility $832professional $200

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$19,054.61
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$251.19
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$316.23
CDPHP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,011.87
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$15,135.61
CDPHP
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$245.47
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9,120.11
Median
$20,892.96
Typical High
$53,703.18
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$588.84
Emblem Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$338.84
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$181.97
Excellus BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$239.88
MVP Health Care
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$199.53
MVP Health Care
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$446.68
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$4,365.16
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$457.09
Univera
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$660.69
Univera
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$239.88
4 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$102.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$40.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$30.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$20.42

Where New York sits

The same service costs 40.2 times more in Alabama than in Delaware. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

New York· 11th of 51

$1,031

$200 physician + $832 facility

AL $12,840DE $320

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.